Clicking and Streaming

Seems like Amazon scoops up movies and shoves them onto the web so fast they can't necessarily keep track of, categorize, or provide cover art for what they've got streaming. Rush through the e-commerce behemoth's "Recently Added" Prime options and you'll see plenty of movies represented by just...More

Taxi Zum Klo Directed by Frank Ripploh Currently streaming via Netflix Released around the same time as William Friedkin’s “Cruising” and the first Mad Max—two films about the hetero-nuclear family getting wrecked by the warping homoerotic brutality of daddy dom leatherhood—Frank Ripploh’s autobiographical...

Why become a stand-up comedian? For most, it is presumably fame, self-gratification, and glory. But what about the comedian who is painfully aware of the fact they most likely will never achieve those things? You know, the ones who aren't so delusional and realize they are propelling themselves...

Spoiler alert: There is absolutely no way to talk about "Sense8" in all its queer glory without disclosing major spoilers. And that's largely because no one has any idea WTF is going on with this Netflix original for the first half of the season. "Sense8"—from trans filmmaker Lana Wachowski and...

"The Bridge" Directed by Eric Steel Currently available via DVD and iTunes "The Bridge" is, on the face of it, the most picturesque snuff film ever made. As you watch, 23 people haul themselves up over the chest-high red rail of the Golden Gate Bridge and drop 245 feet to the frigid chop of San...

"Stray Dogs" Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang Currently available on Blu-ray and streaming on Netflix "Stray Dogs," Tsai Ming-Liang's first film on Blu-ray and the only one streaming on Netflix, is composed of a series of nearly static shots hypnotically painting the resourceful routines of a homeless...

"Love Is Strange" Directed by Ira Sachs Currently available on DVD/Blu-Ray In most romances, no one worries about money or space, not even in high-dollar Manhattan. In "Love Is Strange," writer/director Ira Sachs¿ 2014 sleeper, new to Sony Classics DVD/Blu-ray and streaming, these forces retain...

A Vice magazine fashion photographer receives a letter from his troubled sister Caroline (Amy Seimetz), living at Eden Parish, a secluded, communal farm run by a mysterious man named Father (Gene Jones). The photographer Patrick (Kentucker Audley), along with journalist Sam (AJ Bowen) and cameraman...